How To Use Vizier In A Sentence
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It was grand enough, Davis thought, for a vizier, a judge, a high priest, at the very least.
THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
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Errahman, and Vizier and Sultan amuse themselves by undertaking plundering expeditions against insurrectionary tribes, whose sedition they first stimulate, and then quell, that is to say, by receiving from the unlucky rebels a handsome gratification.
Travels in Morocco
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Yes; this was the news that suddenly spread confusion and dismay throughout Florence, the news which told how the Ottoman fleet, for some days past moored off the port of Leghorn, had vomited forth legions, and how the formidable force was approaching at a rapid rate, under the command of the grand vizier in person, the seraskier and sipehsalar of the armies of the sultan!
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
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_gadado_, or vizier, where apartments were provided for him and his servants.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley
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Heschem, the real kalif, was a virtual prisoner in his harem, and was encouraged by his guardian and friends to devote himself entirely to a religious life, leaving all the cares of state to his mother Sobeyah and to the vizier.
Women of the Romance Countries
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In the museum's set, instead of queens, there are viziers, and instead of bishops, there are elephants, which were called fils, according to "Masterpieces From the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," a book about the exhibition that is being published by the museum.
NYT > Home Page
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The leading passion of the vizier was the love of receiving presents.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
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The establishment of a vizier is a fundamental law of despotism.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
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He would surely have been present, for example, at such great occasions as the marriage, in January 1085, of al-Mu'tamin's son Ahmad al-Musta'in to a daughter of Abu Bakr of Valencia, splendidly organized by the Jewish vizier Abu al-Fadl ibn Hasday, himself one of the luminaries of the court culture of Zaragoza.
David Shasha: Charlton Heston's 'El Cid': A Hero for Our Time
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We desire," say they in their letter to the resident, (written so late as March last,) "that you will inform us if any, and what means, have been taken for recovering the balance due from the Begum [Princess] at Fyzabad; and that, if necessary, you _recommend_ it to the vizier to enforce _the most effectual means_ for that purpose.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
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I've been the guest of chancellors, viziers, cæsars, walis and prime ministers.
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In returning the cup to him, the Vizier elegantly eructed in his face.
The Life of Lord Byron
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Reagan had pretty seriously deteriorated by this point, and the grand vizier has a lot of power when the sultan is senile.
Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Note
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The first was the sacred standard of the Prophet Mohammed, and accompanied the grand vizier in his capacity of representative and vice-regent of the sultan; and the latter was the banner which was always planted in front of the pavilion inhabited by the seraskier, or commander-in-chief of the
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
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She also points out that the absence of maxims regarding the vizierate, the highest office in the land, make it unlikely that the author was a vizier.
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The grand vizier was sent for by the sultan, dismissed, and bowstrung the next day.
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After 13 years as a slave, Joseph becomes Pharaoh's vizier.
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So he called the eunuch and bade him go forthright to his Vizier and bid him assemble the whole of the troops and cause them don their arms and mount their horses.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
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After Esther becomes queen, her cousin Mordecai becomes involved in a power struggle with the grand vizier Haman the Agagite, a descendant of an Amalekite king who was an enemy of Israel during the time of King Saul (1 Sam 15: 32).
Esther: Bible.
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Elkanah that was next to the king -- that is, the vizier or prime minister (Ge 41: 40; Es 10: 3).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In the middle of the roadway beneath the window, the Vizier's ivory rose lay pristine on the muddy cobbles.
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Thus empowered, they came to play a vital role in the new polity and culture, serving as viziers and military commanders.
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if your slave may be so honoured as to speak in your presence, a vizier should be a person of great tact; he should be able to draw the line as nicely as I do when I shave your sublime head, leaving not a vestige of the hair, yet entering not upon the skin.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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Hence many Ottoman viziers were of non-Turkish ethnic origin, including Greeks, Albanians, and even Italians.
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A petty vizier banishes a bostangi to Lemnos; the vizier Azem banishes the petty vizier to Tenedos; the pasha banishes the vizier Azem to Rhodes; the janissaries imprison the pasha and elect another who will banish the worthy
A Philosophical Dictionary
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He took around with him on his rambles his vizier, Giafar (a vizier is a composite of a chauffeur, a secretary of state, and a night-and-day bank), and old Uncle Mesrour, his executioner, who toted a snickersnee.
Roads of Destiny
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The vizier, whose thoughts were always quick, told the king to ask whether this fish was a male or a female.
KARA KUSH
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Coordination between the different viziers and communication between the sovereign and the vizierates required a new official.
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He reasoned that the king and the vizier were trying to fob him off.
KARA KUSH
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Turk what noteworthy distinction is there between vizier and sandal-strapper?
The Cost
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The two tusks depicted on 1000 year old (and older) Islamic chess pieces of the "vizier," "farzin" or "wazir" evolved into the Bishop's mitre (in Western chess) as the Arabic version of chess spread into Europe and was adopted by the European royal courts.
Goddess Kamkhaya
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One day, he's taken to the vizier's mansion by force.
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He came to Egypt in 1168 as an assistant to his uncle, who was a general and then became the vizier of the last Fatimid caliph.
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In the reign of Meneptah of the nineteenth dynasty the vizier was a native of Bashan, Ben-Mazana by name, whose father was called Yu the elder.
Patriarchal Palestine
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The great calligrapher, Muhammad ibn Muqla, a vizier at the court of three Abbasid caliphs, was charged with the task of standardising and refining the myriad cursive scripts.
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A few ago, cade vizier an pavise from an collaborative misanthropy scraps who was soft disquietingly kashmiri a groundbreaking skink surveying ruff our exploited, faithfully burbly untoothed zairean.
Rational Review
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The reforms fade as he speaks of the dark designs of regional foes, while his guileful chief coalition partner, the burly, corruption-shadowed grand vizier, a rival for the political affection of the aristocracy, exploits long-simmering hatreds to push for a broad range of curbs on democratic freedoms.
Bradley Burston: In Israel, the revolution has already begun
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During tulip season the grand vizier provided the sultan with nightly entertainment in the Ciragan gardens, lit by thousands of mirrored lanterns as well as candles mounted on the backs of ambling tortoises.
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Yussuf, my trust is in God! A beeldar will I live, a beeldar will I die, in spite of the caliph and his grand vizier to boot.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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During his vizierate the Ottoman Empire regained some of its former prestige and vitality.
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Near the recreation building is the famous pachisi or chess board, similar to the one at Agra, where Akbar and his vizier, sitting opposite, marshalled the slave girls to and fro.
Travels in the Far East
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He also spoke of him by his title of "vizier," which he declared he had never forfeited the right to use; and he also stated that he had only entered Epirus as a peace-maker.
Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
